Scottish Open 2013: Outsiders Who Will Close the Field Before Final Round

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Published: July 13, 2013

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Acting as the final precursor to The Open Championship, Europe’s elite are currently going through their paces in an attempt to book their spot in the third major of the year, if they haven’t done so already.

Although many of golf’s major stars have failed to show up for this final warm-up, there’s still a bevy of talent on display, albeit looking slightly thin at the top of the card.

At the Castle Stuart Golf Links course in Inverness, Chris Doak has fielded a score of 66 in both of his first two days to take a lead of 12-under par, although that could all change after the halfway stage.

With the final two days set to begin on Saturday, there are those players just on the fringes of the leading 10 who will seek to stage some sort of upheaval over the next 48 hours, the more likely of whom are looked at below.

 

Mikko Ilonen



After going six under on the first day’s play, Finland’s Mikko Ilonen disappointed his support slightly with a second-day score of 71, rounding him off at seven-under par with two days left to go.

The 33-year-old won his first European title for six years last month, bagging himself the Nordea Masters in Sweden, carding four birdies on his final day in that run.

Similarly, Ilonen will look upon the second day of this weekend’s competition as his worst before improving for Sunday’s run-in.

The three-time Open Championship finisher must now seek to resurrect whatever it was that helped him so much on the first day of Scottish Open action, the form which saw him sit much closer to the top than his current position of 24th.

 

Francesco Molinari



Sitting just off the pace of the top 10, the elder of the Molinari brothers can certainly be counted as one of the bigger names choosing to take part in this weekend’s warm-...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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